Top Quarterbacks In The NFL Draft.
The Chicago Bears Traded The Number One Pick In The 2023 NFL Draft To The Carolina Panthers. Since then, Quarterback Turnstile Has Shifted Back And Forth.
Everyone With A Twitter Page In The Industry Has Long Speculated On what Return The Bears Would Receive For The Pick Once The Value Got Settle. How Far Down The Board Would The Bears Drop? GM Ryan Poles Have Many Holes To Fill On The Bears' Roster. Trade The Panthers sent Chicago their first-round Pick (No. 9 overall) and second-round selection (No. 61) in April's draft, a 2024 first-round selection, a 2025 second-rounder, and Moore, As Reported Through Several Outlets.
I've Seen First Round Picks Command More In Return From Lower Leaps But The Bears Notch A Solid Haul For The Season Of Hard Knocks. I Expected Something Similar To What Miami Nabbed For Trey Lance, But Given That Trading Up For Quarterbacks Has A sketchy History And Lance Stand As The Testament To That the Panthers Performed Not To Sacrifice More.
The Quarterbacks In This Year's Draft Aren't Commanding As Much Presence as In Years Past, Plus DJ Moore Looks Like A Steal For The Bears For Now. Trade Also Takes The Bears Out Of The Quarterback Evaluation Game Now That They've Cleared the Way For A Full Commitment To Justin Fields. The Panthers Are At the Top Of The Ladder Or on Chopping Block In The Quarterback Evaluation Game. Thats A Game Of Throne In A Year With No Clear Cut Favorite, Playing The Qb Evaluation Game Means "You Win Or Die." The Panthers Can Secure Their Starter For The Future Or Join The Long List Of Teams Who've Traded And Gotten Nowhere. Shame On The Analyst Who Suggests That The Correlation Of The Heights Of The Pass Ensemble Of Quarterbacks Frank Reich Coach Will Determine Who The Panthers Select Number One Pick. the Height Barrier Doesn't Block The Superior Talent. Frank Reich Gave The Media A Few Clues as To What He Looks For In A Quarterback Because he Has A Criterion, Even Me.
"There are Intangible and Nome Tangible." The Invisible Class Door Between The Things You Can Quantify Things You Can't Quantify, Like Heart, Leadership, and Acumen. That's Why You Love Evaluating The Quarterback Position…the Biggest Challenge." said Frank Reich, Former Quarterback and Current Head Coach Of The Carolina Panthers. Coaches Like Colorado's Deion Saunders Have Turn To Bible-Like Genealogies And GPAs As Criterion For His Quarterback Decision. For Eithher Coach To Find A Suitable Workable Quarterback In Their Early Tenure With New Team Would Change The Complexion Of Much Of The Out Look For Both Teams. Your Team Needs As Much Rep As Possible To Even Crack One Side Of Solving The Rubrics Cube Of Quarterback Evaluations. Some Quarterbacks Are Judged Solely On How They Handle The Combine Media Session. Most High Profile Prospects Are Train To Handle The Pre-Exposure, and Some Media Personal Are How Do Say Behooved To Sign The Favorable Light On Some Prospects. Evaluations For Quarterback Can Become. Many Trusted Sources Looked To The Film But Arent Always Sure What They're Looking For Or What Translate To The Next Level And What Doesn't. How Do You Separate The Potential From The Product And The Play From The Outcome? The Science Of It All Has Become So Overbaked Because Every One Needs To Believes They've Figured All Of the Quarterback Model Out And that The Perfect Model Exist Only In Their Hive Mind. Geno Smith Said something Interesting At The End Of The Seahawks Season. In The Regular Season, Finally Against Division Foe Rams To Secure What Would Become The Final Playoff Spot, Smith, Through An Interception To Jalen Ramsey At The Onset Of The Game, Always Dashing Seattle's Hopes. Geno Smith Laid Out The Game Plan For Quarterback's Play and Maybe Quarterback Evaluation, "Follow The Process Not The Result." On The Opening Game, Interception Geno's Nose Lead Him Right Taking the Rams One On One On The Outside; Jalen Ramsey's Astute To The Seahawks Plays Jump The Route. Eventually, Seattle Would Come Out On Top Of The Rams. But Geno And His Story Typify The Arches Of Quarterback Play. Is The Quarterback Going Through The Right Process? Who's To Blame For The Quarterback's Shortcomings Are Meaningless Because They All Have Shortcomings Somewhere. If The Process Is Correct, How Does The Quarterback Respond To The Wrong Result From Said Process? The Only Time When Scouting Quarterbacks Get easy Are When The Decision Has A Clear Answer(Like Trevor Lawrence) Or When They Pool coming Doesn't Have Depth(Like Last Year); The Decision Are Given.
My Thoughts On The Top NFL Quarterback Prospects. I Intended To Write A Top Five, But Everything Grows As Draft Build And Destroy.
Every Quarterback Gets Drafted To The Carolina Panthers God Bless Him. That Quarterback Room Looks Mighty From The Outside With Frank Reich And Josh McCown As Quarterback's Coach. Neither Are Hall Of Fame Players, But Both Have Solid Playing Experience. Both Spent Extensive Time Clipping "Cuffing" On The Sideline. The Amount Passer-Friendly-Developmental-Energy Just "Condensing" Must Have A Palpable Effect On Which Young Man H.A.S. his Draft Dream Come True. The Panthers Staff Will Lean In Their Trusted Abilities To Develop A Quarterback, But Which One. Two Candidates With Tons Of Talents Who Need Less Coaching But Have Question Mark That Answerable Before They Suit Up. The Panthers Can Choose The Prospect Who Can (and Possibly Will) Achieve The Most On The Football, But For Now, He Needs Coaching And Time—Both Elements The Panthers Have In Droves. The Ready Made Prospects Give Tye Coaches More Room To Work With While Project Projects To Test And Sharpen Their Coaching Blade Even Further. The Other Teams In The Mix Have The Challenge Of Reaching Or, In The Case Of Will Levi's, Avoid Reaching.
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Why Assume Richardson Won't Have The Capability To Start Right Away? AR-15 Ohh, I Get It. "An outstanding weapon with phenomenal lethality" thats How Gun Enthusiast Describe The AR-15 Rifle, And Thats Also How Quarterback Interested Teams Are Hoping Anthony Richardson Pans Out As A Quarterback Prospect With A Similar Profile.
The Florida Product, With His Electric buzzing, Has Earned Comparisons To Cam Newton, Justin Fields, And Others, Josh Allen Quarterbacks Who Have The Jitters And The Kinetic Energy To Make Football Work Around Him. He's a Riser on Most Boards Which Makes Him a Polarizing Prospect For Every Caught Up In The Rapture Of Watching Quarterbacks This Season. No Matter What You Hear, He's Not Going In The Fourth Round Or Anywhere Close To His Preseason Projection. He's Getting That 'Name To Watch' Treatment.' His Odd To Go Number One Jump From Nowhere To Looking At A Home Right Next To Bryce Young. Richardson Compares Favorably To Cam Newton. No need To bring That Point Up; With He'll Let You Know He Favors Cam Newton, Not Only Physically, "I've Always Been The Biggest And Fastest Guy On The Field," Similar To Newton The Connection To the University Of Florida. When Cam Came Out Of 2011, Nobody Thought He'd Take The Starting Spot For The Panthers Year One, But Newton Took The League By Storm As Both A Running "Freakazoid" And Setting A Rookie Passing Record. Nothing Richardson achieves From A Physical Point Of View Should Shock Anyone. However, The PreExisting Mold For Athletic Quarterback Has Set Richardson Will Reset The Scale. His Physical Profile Won't Ameliorate The Strain His Lack Of Technical Deft Will Put On His Game. His Arm Strength Won't Move The Needle On The Number Of Inaccurate Passes. Quick Feet Won't Out Cast Poor "Foot Work."
Nevertheless, Richardson Gives What You Want To See In A Quarterback Prospect. He Doesn't Push To The Scramble Codes In AT the First Sign Of Trouble Despite His "elite rushing ability." He Rushed For 713 Yards On 97 Carries, breaking 39 Tackles, But His Film Doesn't Shoehorn him Into That Spot As a Running Quarterback. He's Closer To Josh Allen Or Deshaun Watson's Style Of Play With A build Comparison To Cam Newton.
He's A Passing Quarterback, Almost Inspite Of The Narrative And The Jarring Kick Back From Him Passing.
He Can Work Through Multiple Reads On The Field. Of Course, Reading The Field And Two completing Discriminating Different Tasks. Richardson Only Completed 53.7% Of His Passes. He's Painfully In Accurate At Instances Even When He Completes A Pass I Think We're All Surprised By The End Result. Florida Didn't Boost Winners On The Outside Either, Like, Say, Ohio State.
Richardson Can Correct The Issues With Proper Coaching And Time Spent Deliberating The Ends Of His Game And Not Running The Coaches. After Watching A Handful Of Om Tape Studies, I can Assure You He Goes Through Progressions Better Than He's Given Credit For By an Analyst Because Of His Eye-Melting Athletic Testing. His Feet Are Settle In a Pocket, Not Deter By The Storm Swirling Around Him. As His First Option Opens Then Disappears, He Doesn't dart For the Nearest Exit Like A Fire. The Weapons At Florida Weren't Always Up To Speed, So The Completion Percentages Need to reflect His Ability To Play. His Georgia Film From This Season Long "Workable." At Times He Exhibits A lot Of The Tendencies, Overthrows, Miss-reads, and Poor Placement, That Have Many scouts Skittish About His Upside. The Film Also Presented A lot Of The Traits That Make Richardson "Upside" So Tantalizing; Pocket Poise and Navigation, Complementary Footwork, Back Shoulder Touch, and Accuracy. With Panthers Now Slated At Number One, Richardson Will Mostly Likely Run Neck And Neck With CJ Stroud As The Race To Number Intensifies With Pro Day Season Upon Us. The Panthers have A Coaching Buttressed With Former Quarterbacks, Including Frank Reich And Josh McCown. Selling Himself On His Physical Profile And His Projectable Traits To A Coaching Staff Sure To Convince Themselves Or Deceive Themselves On The Idea Of Correct His Maladroit Tendencies, Richardson Has The Edge On Stroud My Opinion. I've Seen Enough films. He's The Best Quarterback Prospect In The 2023 Draft. I Don't Think anyone's Quarterback Or Quarterback Type Has Gained More From The Very Fresh, Unfiltered, And Recent Success Of Jalen Hurts. I Don't Think Richardsons Accuracy Will Jump Leaps And Bonds, And He's Not Supporting Cast Proof—Josh Allen Improved Immensely After The Bills Consolidated Their Roster Around Him. Nevertheless, The Duel Threat Ability and Processing Ability Are Definite Transferable Skills.
CJ Stroud: The Presumed Number One Pick.
CJ Stroud Will Break The Ohio State Quarterbacks Curse. Let's Wait to Get Ahead Of Our Selves.
Slowly, like Molasses Pouring Slowly—For You Who Grew Up With Their Grandmother— CJ Stroud Has Grown On Me As The Top Quarterback Prospect. Stroud's Rise From Borderline Thought In My Book To the Top Two Projected Quarterbacks Didnt Come as A Result Of The Other Quarterbacks In This Draft being Depressing. All Of The Pre-draft discussions Have Pit Anthony Richardson On A Meteoric Rise To The Top, Though In Fairness, Every Year, The Invisible Hand Pushes A Relevantly Unforeseen Card To The Top Of The Deck. Not Counting Bryce Young, The Potential Quarterback Draft Picks Arent Playing With A Roster Gilded With Top Receiver Prospects The. Ohio State University Has A Unique Knack For Producing Low-Quality Quarterbacks. The School Has Produced More Quarterback Who has converted To Receivers (Braxton Miller, Terrelle Pryor)In The N.F.L. Than Successful Passer. In Many Draft Years Passed, CJ Stroud Would Stand Out As The Best Quarterback In A Draft Class. He Fits The Mold From An Intangible Point Of View, On A Surface.
He Said All The Right Things In Press ConferenceAt The Combine. He'd Surely Deion Saunders Test A Bright Scholar From Strong Home. He Grew up In California, And Through Faith, He Overcame The Perils And Trauma. His Dad Went To Jail In 2015 When Stroud was 12-13. He's the Strong Kid Who Didn't Become The Problem As His Mom Search From Place To For Them To Live. From The Absent Father To The Overgrown Kid Playing Above The Level Of His Peers. At Youth, He Allegedly Threw the Ball 50 Plus Yards, He's Not The Strongest Arm In Thsi Draft By Any Measure, But That's Not The Selling Point Of Stroud's Game.
"I know who I am. I know what I can do." The Winning Of All award Starts With The Knowledge Of Self. He's Coming From A Strong Offense Ohio State. Ryan Day Deploy A Well-Rounded Scheme That Didn't Always Test Strouds Ability To Read But At Least Gave Him A Well-Rounded Diet Of Throws. He Knows His Strength Coming Into The League And Knowing Thats Half The Battle. "I'm A Ball Placement Specialist." Stroud Defended Himself. "I Throw Guys Open." The Best Examples of Stroud's Brandishing Strength Comes From His Film Throwing To Fellow 2023 Draft Teammates Jaxson Smith-Njigba. "Separation Isn't Always Going To Be There." Stroud Didn't Play Much With Njigba This Season Due To A Hamstring Injury That Sidelined The Receiver Almost The Entire Year. Stroud Continued. With Jaxson A Talented Hand But A Lackluster Athlete Coming Out Of The Slot, "It Takes Hard Work And Consistency." What I Can't Reckon With Stroud And Every Other Ohio State Quarterback is how To Extricate Their Play From The Entire Ohio State Edifice. He's Like One Of Those Booby Trapped Treasures In One Of Those Indiana Jones Movies, Once You Moved The Egg Or Diamond From Alcove Does Everything Fall Apart. I Don't See That With Stroud. He Has A Tendency To Telegraph His Eyes His Passes. College Defenses Usually Declare Their Coverage Ahead Of The Snap. College Offenses Usually Respond By Taking The Matchup They Favor Most And Pre Deciding Which Receiver To Target(obviously Not Every Down). When Defenses Like, Say, Iowa Began Reading Strouds Body Ruffled Him(Stroud), And The Buckeyes Offense Early In A Game, Ohio State Eventually Ran Away. The End Result Skew The Results Because Ohio State Just Stands Head and Shoulders Above Competition(If You Call 52-10 Beat Competition) In The Big-10. Stroud Likes To Get In A Rhythm; he Showed Some Of That At The Combine; he Showed The Ability To Swing Into A Rhythm In The Second Half Against Iowa And Even Georgia.
Though At Times, He LETS his Ability to Conjured A rhythm take Him away When Read And React May Yield A Better Result. In The League, Stroud Will Have To Deliver The Sale Of His Fakes(Play Actions) And His Look Offs More. He's Deliberate And Surgical And The Results Of His Precognitions We're Obvious Through Seven Games, He Recorded 28 touchdown passes. He's also Dissectible For Defenses Once The Pen His Rhythm. How does That Look? Defenses Can Show Drop, Simulate Pressures And Bail Out Into The First Open Window. The Chess Game Within The Chess Game That We Never Get The Full Scope Of From The Outside. His Numbers Dropped From His First Season Starting To his Second Season Starting. In 2021 Stroud Completed 317/443(71.6%)Passes For 4424 Passing Yards, 44 Touchdowns, And 6 Interceptions Compared To 2022, 257/390 (65.9) For 3684 Passing Yard 41 Touchdown Six(6) Interceptions. Stroud Spent Less Of His Time In Pocket Funneling Directives From The Coaching Staff To The Field. The Minutia Of What The Quarterback Saw Pre-Snap And How The Coverage Moved And Shift In Between Time.
I think Stroud Does Have an Arm Strength Issue That's Noticeable In the Film. The Ball Gets To His Spot, But He Throws "Wobblers" More Than He Should(Which Means Any Amount Greater Than zero), And The Hang Time Feels Palpable. a lot Of Those Throws Pop Up In The Michigan Film. I Can See HIM having Trouble Hitting Tight Windows With Velocity And Timing Because Of How His Ball Hangs Stranded Mid-Flight So Often. I've Watched Stroud Hit Routes Of 30 Or More Yards From The Opposite Hash All The Into Back Of Like The 37 Yard Connections To Marvin Harrison. Nevertheless, We've Witness Quarterback with Limited Arm Strength, Mac Jones, Who Bill Belichick Flat Denied An Opportunity To Throw A Hail Mary Because Jones "Couldn't Throw That Far" Jalen Hurts Suffered The Same Injury To His Ability To Pass The Ball In The Super-bowl. I Fear Stroud Will Get Netted With Those Boys.
Bryce Young. The Progridy With The Problem.
"I Know Myself. I Know What I'm Capable Of," said Bryce Young. He Sat Down To Discuss The Formality Of Skipping Throwing At The NFL Combine And Instead Trusting In The Set Up In Store For Decision Makers At His Pro Day. "Honestly, I Try To Play Like Me." With Knowing Yourself, You Take The Path Way To All Things. The Biggest Challenge For Size Impair Bryce Young's Career He's Already Packed Behind. He Earns Some Censure From Critic For Forgoing Any Athletic Testing and The Combine. What Would Young Gain In Taking A Competitive Approach To The Combine Against CJ Stroud? Young Knows Himself. The Combine Exsist Mostly For Prospect With Something To Prove Than Affirm Facing Off With Anyone In A Showcase Only Serve The Media And Not Young's Cause To Earn The Number Pick. He Approach To Indy This Past Week Requires Confidence and Trust In His Abilities Will Most Likely Shine Approve The Others If He Indeed Has The Head and Shoulders Above The Other Prospects. No One Has To Question Whether He's. COMPETITOR. He Came Back From Injury And Played And Risk Injury In What Most Would Count As A Meaningless Bowl GAME. The Most Weightiest Point Of His Profile, The Point Most Will And Have Harked On Through These Draft Days, Won't Change When He Throws at His Combine. Dear Anyone Draft Columnist Not To Bring Up Young's Height Like Asking Movie Journalist Not To Bring Up "Marvel" When Talking To Martin Scorsese.
The Only People Who Know Young with A Semblance Close To Himself Are scouts Who've Kept Tabs On Hime Ever Since The California Native emerged as The Number One Dual Threat Quarterback Prospect In High School Three Years Ago, Number Two Quarterback Overall. Young Understands That Very Few Questions Remain About His Game. He's Had Pro Coaching At The Age Most Of Us Were Still Learning The Ins And Outs Of The Game. In A Game Of Football Whose Complexities Can't Succumb To Arbitrary Ways Of Limited Size And Strengths, How Does Bryce Young's Size And Strength Limit His Game? Young Will Quickly Earn A Reputation For Not Succeeding At Throwing Over The Middle. All Ant-Man Size Quarterbacks Are Dubbed Middle Deficient. Kyler, Russell Wilson Even Jalen Hurts Have All Had Their Ability To Throw Crossers Consistently questioned. That Book Has Most Likely Already Found Itself On The Shoulders Of Bryce Young. Just Like A Shorter Point Guard In Basketball Like Chris Paul, Young Has Mastery Over The Technical Attribute Of The Game. "he's [Young]The Point Guard Out There Able To Deal… Get [The Ball] To Right Time."
Chris Paul That's Who Comes to Mind Watching The "Diminutive" Young Deal Out the Ball In Alabama's Pro Offense Spearhead By Former Texans Coach. Bill O'Brien. As A Passer, You Can Trust His Foot Work, His Ball Placement, and His Accuracy To Remain An Unquestioned Degree Of Excellent. His Sophomore Season, His First Season As A starter For Bama, Stands out between The Two Years He Played In Crimson. Despite Getting Bludgeoned Consistently In Pass Protection, Last Year Bama Team Afforded Young The Best Supporting Cast. Jameson, John Metchie, Evan Neal, And Brian Robinson, All Of Whom Moved On To The Pros. With His Left Side Secure, His Deep Threat Forcing Every Secondary Into Code Red, His Possession Threat Flank Near, And a Running Game That Put On A Near Pro Level Show. Young's Heisman Year Of 365/550, 66.4 % Completion Percentage and 4860 Passing Yard(Alabama Record), 47 Touchdowns(Alabama Record), And 7 Interceptions On 8.8 Yards Per Throw. The Number doesn't Tell Much Because It's Given That Young, A Superior, Should Eviscerate Most Of The College Level Competition When Playing A Juggernaut Like Alabama. What I Noticed Happened At Bama For Young A lot of The Receivers Just Came Up Open By With Better Talent Than Other Teams; you Can't If Bryce Read The Field Or Follows The Concept and The Pre-Snap "Tells" Or Declarations By The Defense. Bill O'Brien Schemed The Offense To The 10s At Bama. From Young's Cadence And Timing Everything Lined Up And That's Something To Watch In The Pros. When Not Making And His Reads Are Scrambled, How Well Does He Improvise? Can He Make The Thread The Needle Throws?
Young Generated A Passer Rating And Grading Standards Dip, Which Aligns With His Fall Off In Production. But Young's Trait As A Player Remained Mostly The Same, Consistent Through and Through. From Foot Work To Process, He Looks Clean.
PFF Graded Him The Highest Graded Quarterback In College. Some Drafts argue that If You Disregard Bryce Young's Size, He's Miles Above The Rest Of His Class. Of Course, You Need to Refrain from Disregarding The Size But Theoretically. Young's, Of Course, Has Its Advantages. Just Like With Chris Paul, Young Had To Hone The Technical And Neurological Aspects Of The Game. He Got Sack A Lot At Bama, But He's Incredibly Slippery And tough To Catch An Angle On In The Back Field. On Film, You Can See middle Linebackers And Spies Have Trouble Locating Him In The Back Field. So When Thing Break Down In The Pocket, He Can Create Magic In Sudden Movements.
The Arm Angles He Throws At Are Also Different From A Shorter Base; He Gets More Arch On The Ball. HisHeight Also Suggest That He Can Generate More Velocity In A shorter Throwing Motion Because The Energy From The Base Of His Legs has A lot Less Physiological Real Estate To Travel. He's Not The Excitable Athlete, But He Can Shake. He's Incredible Elusive In The Back Field, SEC Defensive Lineman Had Trouble Corralling Him In A Phone Booth.
Whenever Defenses Ran Contains, Flood, Or Edge Pressure, He Showed a nAck For Not Just Finding The Exit But Running Laterally, Not Vertically, To Extend The Play; Sometimes, He Skates Across The Line Without Actually Leaving His Feet. Having A Lower Center Of Gravity Has Some Privileges. Of Course, Escapability Leads Young Astray, And He Can, At Times, Get Caught Out Of Pocket Without A Plan, Forgetting His Check Down And Trying To Make Something Happen Himself.
His Feet And Base Are Patience And Well Connected. His Arm Strength Rivals That Of the Deep Assassin Russell Wilson. He Process The Field Super Quick, Moving From Read To Read, With His Feet Moving, Planted, Or Under Duress. With His Pro Day As Evidence Young Cam Spin The Ball.
Will Levis: Too Much Of A Teaser, Team Are Too Tempted To Touch.
If Taking Out Your Note Pad—You'll Need A Note Pad—And Performing Your First Look On Will Levis Turn The Sound Off And By "Sound" I Mean Endless Banter From "Expert" With All The Right Projection.
No One Looking To Probably Evaluate Needs To Hear The Excuses About His Disappointing Final Year Of College. I'd Rather Hear How He Overcame The Adverse Elements At Kentucky. How The Change Of System, Offensive Line… The List On And On Didnt Dampen His Play In Anyway. How Levi's Weather The Storm That Would've Derailed Any Draft Train. Instead, Because Everyone Betted On His Name In The Preseason. He's Cuddle and Excused For The Obvious Failings In Development.
Regardless At His Pro Day, The Balls Looked Special, Beautiful Even. Any Of The 3 Three Quarterbacks In This Class Will Had Impressive Workouts This Year. Believe Me, I Get The Draw On Will Levi's. I mean, Who Wouldn't. He's a Quarterback Serving Packed With All Of The Projectable Traits, Big Arm, Mobility, And Stature.
Nevertheless, He's A Project, The Mold For Him Has Already Reached The Highest bars Of The NFL. While He is Projecting, I Think He Stands A Few Feet Back From Where Justin Fields Stood At this Stage In Development, But Levis Also Stands Level With Fields In Age(23). Age Alone Doesn't Determine Upside, Levis Isn't The First 23-Year-Old To Need Time To Develop, Dak Prescott Came Out Of Mississippi State With Projection After Developing From A Tebow Type Player Before Emerging As A Will Levi's Type Now Running The Cowboys Overkill Offense As A Pure Progression Assassin.
Similarly, Joe Burrow Left LSU Practically on 23/24; Burrow, Of Course, Packaged Fewer Questions About His Ability To Read And Make Accurate Throws When he Entered The League. Furthermore, Dak Prescott, Yes Back To Dak, Passing Attempts Really Jump His Final To Years At Mississippi State.
"His Worst Throws Are The Easy Ones Which I Feel Should Be Fixable… Just Get Your Foot Work Under You And Dumping It Off To Flat How Hard Can That Be?" As Someone Who Sits Down And Watches Film And Never Completed An Official Pass, To Dumping A Ball Off To A Running Back Doesn't Sound Easy. Every Aspect Of Succeed At Football Takes a Massive Investment Of Time and Effort, And Maybe That's Where Levi's Fails. His Trust In His Strong Arm, his Ability To Go The Distance But struggles To Get On Base, He's Yasiel Puig For The Dodgers. For Levis Having A Canon Arm May Deceive Or Scout into The Belief That He's A Good Quarterback, Just Like Having A Sharp Sword Doesn't Make You A Good Swordsman.
Last Season, Will Found Himself In Between The Two Places Most Quarterback Hate, Not The Ground And A 250 Plus Defensive Lineman But A Brain Drain In The Offensive Coaching Staff And A Talent Drain Around Him. Liam Coen, The Rams' 2021 Offensive Coordinator, Left Kentucky For One Year Only To return to The College For The Up Coming Season. His One Year Prove is Crucial And, More Importantly, Crushing For Will Levis, Who Put Forth A Worrying Effort as A Passer Without Coen's Guidance. Not Only Did Levis Drop, but He also Played the Appeal Look "Night And Day." The Change In Offensively And Terminology Can Hurt Players At Any Level, But One Has To Winder Does Levis Operate The Concepts Or Doo The Concepts Operate Him? He's A Nearly 24-Year-old Draft Product, Outside Of Arm Talent That, For Intents And Purposes, Will Look "Average" At The Pro Level Nothing About Levis's Game Stands Out As "Peculiar" To Him. He's Not The Creative Throwing Picasso Like Bryce Young, Not The Marks Man CJ Stroud, Or The Turbo Charge Up Athlete Like Anthony Richardson; he's Still A Blank "Make A Player With A Decent Arm." Kentucky Lost One Or Two Offensive Weapons To The Draft, Primarily Wan'Dale Robinson, Who The Giants Drafted In The Second Round. Good Scheme Can Satiate A Roster Deplete Of Talent, But Those Factors alone Can't Explain Why Levi's Looked Partial At Spots When The Game Called On Him To Play Like A Top Pick Quarterback. How You Choose To Judge Levi's On What He Did In The Year Of "Lacking" Tells You A Lot. Are You Holding The Dearth Of Talent Against Him Like I Am, Or Are you Giving Him A Pass?
Depending On Who You Go To For Your Quarterback "Spiel," You'll Receive A high Variance Of Opinion On Will Levis. For Some, Like PFF Sam Monson, Levi's Has Shown Enough Traits To Warrant The Ranking Of The 2nd Best Quarterback.
All Of Levis's Proponents Point To One Factor Of Levis That glistens From The Muddied Texture Of The Rest Of His Play Last Season For Kentucky; His Arm Talent. Levis Brandishes His Arm Like A Politician With Sketchy Back Ground But A Polished Public Image. Levis has The Arm And The Frame Of The Recent Model Of Quarterback. He's 6'3, 230, And Plays In The SEC for Two Years. He's One Of The Many Quarterbacks Who've Benefited From The Recent Rise Of Josh Allen. You Can See The Torch On Will Levis's Ball Cutting Through The Air.
Nevertheless, For Someone Always Willing To Show Off Their Canon Arm, Levis Doesn't Always Show Off His Canon Arm On Film. In Kentucky's Game Against Georgia, Not Only Did Levis Finish The Day Painfully Inaccurate, But He Under Threw, And Overthrew Several Passes. He Seems To Struggle Gauging The Touch On His Arm Like A superhero Still learning To Manage Their Power. What Levi's Produces More Time Than Not, Films That are Puzzling And Hard To Digest Because, From Class Half Empty Vantage Point, You See So Many Flashes Of The Level He Should've Already Achieve Just Standing The Pocket. As The Ball Exits Levis's Hand, Everything Falls To dust Or Like Dust(You Choose What Metaphor Best Suits You). Levis Looks The Part. If You Walk In A ROOM and Could Only Judge Your Quarterback Based Of Superficial Details, He's The Guy, But The More You Study, The Less You Like him. I Haven't Witness The Same Inconsistency With The Other Prospects. He's Got A Staggering Long Cliff To Climb With Assimilating All The Nuance Of Quarterback Play.
Hendon Hooker. The Upside Gets Lost In. His Age And Injury Recovery.
The Fact That Hendon Hooker Might Still Come Out Of the draft as a first-round pick scares me, And Thats Before I Consider The Fact He's Out Of Action Recovering From ACL Surgery. He Played In A Wide Open Offense At Tennessee. On Film, Very Little About Tennessee Offense Seemed To Have A structure. Thats A Broad Statement that's Hard Ditsill Without A Complete Diagnosis Of The Offense, But Im Not Alone In Question. What Tennesse Laid Out There O. Saturdays. If We Call Double Slants And Someone's Open, Then Hit The Open Guy, If Not Then Don't. Hooker Made Good Work Of His Plethora "… It's just an either-or concept." At Tennessee, Triple Coverage Just Meant Your Needs To Win, So Give Him A Chance At The Ball; these Defensive Backs Can't Catch. If The Coaching Staff Ever Installed Hookers With Any Full Field Reads(They Didn't), He Didn't Seem To Follow Any. If I Ever Read The Down Lineman At The Line On Option Runs, I Must Have Missed That part Of The Game. Hooker Had To Address The Criticism Tennessee's "Pace And Space" Offense Garnered For Emphasizing Open Field Read and Taking Advantage Of the Athletic Ability Of Its Players. Watching Hooker Pass At Tennessee, Solemnly Reminded Me Of Watching A Pro Day Perform Where The Routes Are Directed by PreSnap. Nothing About Tape Or Tales Justifies Judging Anything Of The Nuanced Edges Of Like "Decision Making." His Georgia Tape Gives Clear Evidence Of Georgia Defense Backs Straight Running Receivers Route On The Snap.
Most Of the Whats To Love About Hendon Hooker won't Show Up On His Tape, And The Measurements won't Serve Him True. One Anonymous Team Official Who Interviewed Hooker And Later Spoke With A Draft Analyst For The Athletic Afterward Had This To Say Of His Impression Of Hooker.
"He was so mature…. He was very even keel. I will be shocked if he doesn't make it in some capacity." Hooker's "Positive" Before You Account For Arm Strength, Ball Delivery, And Accuracy, You Have To Account For His Experience. He's 25 Years Old, Easily The Oldest Player In This Draft, And Even In A-Post-Covid-Extra-Year, That's Scary. Quarterbacks And Pro Upside, In General, Are Not Necessarily "Victims" To Age. A Good Doesn't Get Worse With Time Like Produce.
Nevertheless, Drafting A Guy So "Old" Early raises Red Flags, Especially If The Guy Doesn't work Completely Clear The Bar As A Product. He's A Guy That Starts Day One Like Joe Burrow Leaving LSU At 24. As Far As Arm Talents Concerns, Hooker Can Make All the Throws Your Offense Desire. The Offense Needs To Keep The Chains Move With A Quick Out Snap Reaction, Hooker Has Enough spin on The Ball. Fade Routes are Well In His Wheel House. If He Does Possess Pocket Presence, He's Saving All Of It For The Pros Because he Doesn't Exhibit Much Of The "Sixth Sense" Against College Competition. The Media Has Made A Lot About Bryce's Stinginess With Passing Over The Middle. At 5'10, Young Are A Product Of His Stature. Why does Hooker Share The Disassociation With The Middle? Hookers Mobility Also Has Dangerous Limitations. Modern Passer, Pocket Or Otherwise, Can't Rely Soley On Bending The Will Of Scheme and Even Superior Talent In The League. If Tom Brady Came Out Of Michigan Yesterday, He'd Need To "Move Around" Some. For A Quarterback, The Ability To Open Window Has Become an indispensable Feather In The Hat. NFL Defenses Are Too Advance. The Pass Rushing Run Too Deep. Coverages Both Players And Scheme Are Too Talented and Too Disguise Orientated For Just Drop-backs. A Good Quarterback Needs The Quality Of Creating Conflict For Defenses With Add Dimension Of Mobility. Pocket Passers Exclusively Are Sitting Ducks For Blitzes and Lame Ducks For Defensive Backs. Why That's Important.
Tanner Mckee. Intelligent, with Excellent Build, And Surprisely Agile, And Still, I Left His Film Feeling Empty.
Tanner McKee
Can A New Stanford Quarterback Take The League. Davis Mills Tome as The Texans Started Looks Number And Now Some Time Has Passed Since The Last Stanford Standout Enter The League At Quarterback. Mckee Compared Better To Mills Than Say Andrew Luck. McKee's Name And Talent Level, For That Matter, Don't Command The Same Attention Or Herald As The Rest Of The Big Four. He's At The Second Tier Right Under Hendon Hooker But Above Just About Anyone Else. Mckee Has His Own Pocket In This Draft Class, And Maybe He Commands This Pocket Just As Well As He Maneuvered The Pockets In Nothern California and The Pacific NorthWest.
As A Projected Second Round Pick, He's the Head Of The Class As A Clipboard Touting Developmental Prospect. If Anything He Compares Favorably To Will Levis. He's Bigger Than Will Levis With A Massive 6'6 230. On Film, He Towers Over The Offense Line When He's In The Pocket Or Shot Gun. At Stanford, McKee Didn't Have The Strong Supporting Cast, Even By PAC-12. Facing Foes Like USC, UCLA, Oregon, And Utah Stanford Looked Junior Varsity-Ish.
As A Result McKee Never Threw For More Than 3000 Yards, Never Completed More than 66% Of His Passes, And Never Threw More Than 15 Touchdowns. The Comparison To Will Levi's At Size And Supporting Cast. The Play Calling at Stanford Didn't Meet The Bar Either. Some Of The Stains On His Game, From Throwing and Reads Boil Down To Stanford Coaching Staff Influx.
McKee Has A Lackluster Arm. His arm doesn't have Pro Ready Velocity Consistently. In All The Film, Tanner Can Swing From Hitting Deep Outs, Touch Fades, To Then Missing Corner From Across The Hash. Nothing About His Touch Or Placement Looks Superior Or On Par With The Others When Projecting To The Next Level.
The Ball Doesn't Jump From Mckee's Hand; Instead, His Often Weak Release hustles the Kinetic Energy To Scoot Along. He's Not Going To Hit Tight Window With Consistency, At Least Not Right Out Of The Gate. McKee Studied Economics At Stanford, Which Puts Him In a Lie For A Strong Corporate Career. Should Football Not Work—The Way Silicon Valley Bank Are Fairing This day They'll Need Him—But He'll Need A Stimulus Package For That Arm At The Next Level. McKee Scored Several Impressive Games In His Two Years Starting At Stanford. The Cardinal Finished Near The Bottom In The PAC-12 But Not For McKee Play In Several Games. Against PAC-12 Foe Washington McKee Notch 17/26 with 3 TDs and 286 yards. Against Arizona State, McKee Swung His Arm All Out, Going 33-of-57 for 320 yards And A Win. McKee Pick zips Another Solid Performance Against BYU, Finish Ming 31-of-40 for 313 yards and a touchdown in What Would Become His Final Game In Stanford. Cardinal Red. Just Like With Davis Mills, Tanner's Gives A Full View Of The Field Making Full Field Reads A Possibility And Deep Passing Shelf. PFF Registered McKee With a 90.4 Deep Passer Grade and 478 Deep Passing Yards. He Just Vision For Deep Routes, And His Vision Works As A Multiplier For Arm Strength When He Can See the Receiver Open On Long Routes.
His Foot Work that His Liquidity. He Almost Always Meets His Drop-back With Precession Arm Angles. Despite His Stature, I Noticed His Movements Are Very refined, Very Economical. Little Space Or Movement Are Wasted Getting His Lower HALF ready To Set Up Missile.
He also He's Not The Sexy Pick In A Way—but Some Team Could Get A Day Two Prospect With Upside. There are many Schools Of Thought On Judging Quarterbacks. Because So Many Quarterbacks Entered The League With Footwork Issues, I've Decided To Start There At The Base.
